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Advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach and using Anna Karenina to illustrate this method.
The papers in this volume examine strategies for language acquisition and language teaching, focusing on applications of the strategic interaction method.
The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.
Marking the return — after a two-year hiatus — of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.
This volume, based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy; through language policy; to discourse analysis.
Evelyn Ferguson was left orphaned by her only parent when she was eighteen. With piling debts to pay and her only home being threatened, Evelyn accepted her creditor's solution - her virginity in favor of her home. Six years later, Evelyn is slowly rebuilding herself and her mother's business. She works as secretary by day to billionaire bachelor Adam Ian Hemmings and by night, she dons a mask as Mystique the erotic dancer. She had a one night stand with Ian as Mystique and both felt the strong connection between them. Ian pursued her. But Ian is an engaged man. Can Evelyn's conscience allow herself to become someone's mistress? And why does Ian's paw mark look familiar? She recalled seeing it six years ago from her devirginizer. She also saw that same mark on her son's shoulder, the product of that night when she sold her virginity.
The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. With topics as wide-ranging as coherence in operating room communication, involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions, and jury understanding of witness deception, this resulting volume of selected papers provides both experts and novices with myriad insights into the excitement of cross-disciplinary language analysis. Readers will find—in the words of one contributor—that in such cross-pollination of ideas, "there's tremendous hope, there's tremendous power and the power to transform."